These Long Game Training Aids Will Fix Your Swing For Good

With competitive golf drawing to a close, now is the time to work on those lingering swing floors

Now there are a wealth of training aids on the market that can help you do so, but finding the right one for you can often be challenging

In this video, we're going to talk about the flexible ones, the bendy ones, the ones that help with club face control, as well as swing plane

And if you like any of the products that you see in this video, they will be linked out in the description below

So which training aids are best for you? We've tested eight of the best long game training aids

look out for number three it's an absolute game changer let's get on to the video

so we're going to start with the best value training aid this is the g rip mentor and the

idea behind this is that it gives you perfect hand placement scotty scheffler is not an ambassador for

this product but he certainly should be getting paid because he uses this for every practice

session and every range session before competitive play it just neutralizes your grip and make sure

that you keep a neutral club head. The idea is that you can't get too strong or too weak because

of these ridges in the grip that keep your hands in the perfect place. Now the brand itself recommend

that you make 20 to 30 swings just with the product on the end of a club to make sure that

you get used to the feel of how things work with this and then once you're used to how that feels

and how it swings with that grip on you can then move to a range and begin to hit balls away. It's

a great way to iron out any flaws within your grip and get you hitting more neutral golf shots

The next training aid we're going to talk about is the Champ Key Swing Trainer. This is for all

you slicers out there. For anyone who comes over the top and really struggles with that big left

to right ball flight, this is the training aid for you. It's also perfect for warming up because

of the weight of it. It actually is quite heavy and will really stretch out and loosen out those

muscles before you're round and it's a great thing that you can just use on the first tee

to get a quick warm-up in. But why it helps you if you slice the ball is because of the weight

So when you get to the top what it will naturally do is just drop your hands a little and from there

you can really come from the inside and just make a swing on a neutral plane. It's also great for

tempo if you get too quick it will never keep up and if you go too slow you'll just feel it dragging

so this is a great all-in-one training aid but it's perfect for those of you that slice the ball

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now this is the one you've been waiting for this is the hottest training aid on the market right

now you might have seen rory mccaroy has been using this for the past couple of months and it's

a great way of getting control over your arm rotation as well as club face rotation. Now

as you can see here, it just slots on top of your arms here and these rods really just

help it keep in place But there also great use for these rods when you filming yourself at the driving range hitting balls you set your tripod up and when you filming your swing you really get a great idea of where these rods are placed You want them to sit in a horizontal line

across your arms here when you're at the top of the backswing and obviously this line will just

be pointing up over your right shoulder. It shows that you're in a very neutral position with your

arms and you haven't overextended out of your right elbow and you're on plane. Now another way

in which this training aid is really useful for is keeping your arms out in front of your body

It really helps you sync up the arms with the body on the backswing, stops them falling behind

and getting stuck, which is a really bad swing tendency I have. The thing I love most about this

training aid though is how it helps me really compress my iron shots. I feel like I can really

hold the angle and therefore just turn onto the ball with a bit more hinge and therefore get better

strike out of my irons and more distance you kind of want to start off by just hitting kind of

smaller pitch shots with that hold really ingraining that swing thought of compressing the ball by

keeping that angle between your wrist and your arms and your arms out in front of you once you

feel comfortable with that you would just chuck the training aid to the side and then you just you

would start working through slightly more full swings keeping that angle and compressing the ball

to help you hit better iron shots. Okay, let's talk about speed. Everyone has been chasing it

the last couple of years, thanks to Bryson DeChambeau hitting close to 400-yard drives

Now, we've tested all the best speed training aids, including the stack system that has helped

Matt Fitzpatrick gain considerable yardage on the golf course, as well as the speed sticks by

super speed. But I found the most beneficial and actually the most simple to be the rip stick

Now underneath this head cover is just this shaft here that has three interchangeable weights

underneath it and the idea behind this is that you can quickly loosen and fasten this to take

out weights at a time in order to change the weight of the golf club. Now the reason behind this

is that you can then work on over speed training or under speed training and what that would be

is a heavier or lighter shaft. Now a standard driver weighs about 300 grams with all of these

in you're weighing just over 400 grams so you can imagine how much heavier that feels if you can get

used to swinging something heavier faster you're naturally going to swing something lighter even

faster so i've been using the rip stick for a little over a month now and what they actually

recommend is using this for 10 minutes a day three times a week and doing a few simple drills that

you will find on their website now one of those drills is a step drill so you would just step out

your left foot and step into the ball and swing through. The others that you might have seen on

other sites would be on your knees swinging around. That one I find particularly challenging

but I have felt that I've increased my club head speed and that has been proven on TrackMan

by three mile per hour already in a month. So I'm hoping if I continue using this

I'm going to gain considerable speed and therefore hit it past all my mates when I play out on the

golf course So the next training aid we going to talk about is the me and my golf True Grip Glove Now this is a fantastic training aid for all of you that hook the ball and the reason behind that

is the silicone indicators on here really help you neutralize that grip and stop you getting

really strong with your right hand. That is the cause of most people hooking the ball is getting

really strong and therefore when you get to the top of the golf swing that club face gets really

flat and closed therefore when you come down in transition it's already pointing left the ball's

going to start left and it's probably going to keep going left. Now one of the reasons why I love this

glove so much is it's actually USGA conforming so that means you can use this in competitive play

it's got the blue silicone indicators on the palm that the grip just simply places in and then once

over the top you've got a knuckle indicator as well as a V grip indicator here with your fingers

from there you could just place the right hand on top over that V and make some swings you'll see

that it naturally just really gets that club face pointing back over your shoulders in a really

neutral position it's a training grip that I love and the fact that it comes in at around $25

makes it an absolute steal and it's guaranteed to change your game now this is the best training aid

for swing play this is the shore set training aid and if you liked the g-rip mental you're going to

love this thing this is a golf grip training aid on steroids it's already attached to the device

and the idea behind this is on the way back it's going to really help you keep your width

and stop you collapsing but not only that when you turn around and get to the downswing it's going to

really help keep you on plane how it's going to help you do that is through this ball and the

connection that you have with it if you're someone who casts and gets over the top of the ball you're

you're just going to see that device fall out. And vice versa, if you're someone who really collapses

and drops those arms in behind, gets stuck on the way through, you're going to see the ball fall out to the left as well

So the idea behind it is that you keep that width the whole way. It's going to really help you drop that club in the slot

compress your iron shots, and really get you turning through with some aggression

So out of all the training aids that I have tested, the G-Force Swing Trainer

is definitely the best for sequencing. This is a really, really flexible shaft

And the idea behind that is to help you with your sequencing. Now, a lot of amateur golfers get really quick

and snatchy from the top. And what you'll see is that iron really cast out

in front of you and you're gonna see instant mistakes with your ball fly and strike

If you learn to swing this correctly, it will really help your tempo and sequencing

and get that lower body activated and actually turning first on the downswing

with your upper body coming after, gaining complete separation and therefore helping you improve your strike

You'll get a quick understanding here. If I go to the top and get really quick with the backswing

you can see how on the downswing there, I grounded out really early hit a fat pull and in this wet winter condition that ball wouldn go that far at all However if I sequence this up really well turn my lower body out the way and let the club deliver

in afterwards we should see a much more flush strike and therefore a straighter ball fly

It's a great way to gain instant detection on your sequencing and for that reason I love the

the G4 Swing Trainer. Okay, this is the best training aid for swing path and that is the Speed

Trap 2.0 by Eyeline Golf. Now, the reason I love this training aid so much is the immediate feedback

it gives you. If you're coming over the top or you're getting stuck too much on the inside

you're going to hit these foam poles and they're not going to go flying because they are attached

and it's quite a sensible idea, but it would be quite funny if they did go flying so everyone else

on the range knows that your path is miles out. But what I love about this is that it comes with

this board that essentially has different lines on it for full swing, pitching, and chipping

And depending on if you're botting out too early, you can actually move the ball position slightly

further back to really force yourself to get a bit steeper. So you miss that board and make sure

that you clip the ball before the turf. I'll give you a quick demonstration here. And hopefully I

don't completely embarrass myself and hopefully my my path is actually working

you can see there I've slotted straight through the foam rails and actually clipped one away

really nicely thanks to this board now where it is perfect for swing path is if you're someone

who's wanting to learn how to hit more of a draw you can take these ones out here and what is

actually really handy is that this training aid does come with a booklet that shows you

instruction on how to set this up to favor the shot shape that you're trying to deliver. So if

you're trying to hit a draw you would have it this way so the front left and the back right pole are

still in place and it will get you coming more from the inside. As you can see that really helped

me produce a tight little draw there but if I was practicing hitting draws in real time I would

remove these two pins that I'm not using here. They do look a little clunky and they do kind of get in

the way. It does only take a matter of seconds to remove though. If I was producing, looking to

produce a fade, I would swap the pins around and therefore promote a left swing path, getting that

ball starting left and moving back to the right. If I did even find this too easy, I could actually

move these pins in closer together like so and you'll see naturally it promotes a really tight

path for that club to move through. Clearly I'm not there yet but if you get your hands on this

training aid maybe you'll get there before me. Hopefully this video has given you some really

good inspiration as to what training aids could improve your game this winter. As always if you

like any of the products in today's video the links for them will be in the description box

down below to find the best prices in your area. A big thank you to Burr Hill for hosting us today

but that's all from me we'll see you next time